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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






2. Closed syllable






3. Ability to understand and express spoken language






4. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






5. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






6. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






7. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






8. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






9. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






10. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






11. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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12. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






13. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






14. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






15. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






16. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






17. Feeling through fingertips






18. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






19. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






20. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






21. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






22. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






23. Individual Educational Plan






24. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






25. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






26. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






27. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






28. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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29. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






30. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






31. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






32. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






33. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






34. English as a second language






35. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






36. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






37. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






38. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






39. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






40. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






41. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






42. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






43. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






44. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






45. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






46. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






47. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






48. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






49. Multisensory Structured Language






50. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin